Tissue

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  • noun. A fine, very thin fabric, such as gauze.
  • noun. Tissue paper.
  • noun. A soft, absorbent piece of paper used as toilet paper, a handkerchief, or a towel.
  • noun. An interwoven or interrelated number of things; a web; a network.
  • noun. An aggregation of morphologically similar cells and associated intercellular matter acting together to perform one or more specific functions in an organism. There are four basic types of tissue in many animals: muscle, nerve, epidermal, and connective.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To weave with threads of silver or gold, as in the manufacture of tissue.
  • To clothe in or adorn with tissue.
  • Figuratively, to weave; construct; elaborate.
  • noun. A woven or textile fabric; specifically, in former times, a fine stuff, richly colored or ornamented, and often shot with gold or silver threads, a variety of cloth of gold; now, any light gauzy texture, such as is used for veils, or, more indefinitely, any woven fabric of fine quality: a generic word, the specific sense of which in any use is determinable only by its connection or qualification.
  • noun. A ribbon, or a woven ligament of some kind.
  • noun. In biology, an aggregate of similar cells and cell-products in a definite fabric; a histological texture of any metazoic animal: as, muscular, nervous, cellular, fibrous, connective, or epithelial tissue; parenchymatous tissue.
  • noun. Specifically, in botany, the cellular fabric out of which plant-structures are built up, being composed of united cells that have had a common origin and have obeyed a common law of growth.
  • noun. Figuratively, an interwoven or interconnected series or sequence; an intimate conjunction, coördination, or concatenation.
  • noun. Same as tissue-paper. See paper.
  • noun. In photography, a film or very thin plate of gelatin compounded with a pigment, made on a continuous strip of paper, and used, after bichromate sensitization, for carbon-printing.
  • noun. In entomology, the geometrid moth Scotosia dubitata : an English collectors' name.
  • noun. In zoology, areolar tissue. See def. 3.
  • noun. In zoology, areolar tissue.
  • Made of tissue.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To form tissue of; to interweave.
  • noun. A woven fabric.
  • noun. A fine transparent silk stuff, used for veils, etc.; specifically, cloth interwoven with gold or silver threads, or embossed with figures.
  • noun. One of the elementary materials or fibres, having a uniform structure and a specialized function, of which ordinary animals and plants are composed; a texture.
  • noun. Fig.: Web; texture; complicated fabrication; connected series.
  • noun. very thin, gauzelike paper, used for protecting engravings in books, for wrapping up delicate articles, etc.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Thin, woven, gauze-like fabric.
  • noun. A sheet of absorbent paper, especially one that is made to be used as tissue paper, toilet paper or a handkerchief.
  • noun. Absorbent paper as material.
  • noun. A group of similar cells that function together to do a specific job
  • verb. To form tissue of; to interweave.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a soft thin (usually translucent) paper
  • verb. create a piece of cloth by interlacing strands of fabric, such as wool or cotton
  • noun. part of an organism consisting of an aggregate of cells having a similar structure and function
  • Word Usage
    "_The gelatigenous tissue_: This tissue, chemically and otherwise peculiar as it is, forms the chief component part of many of the human organs, and it may be truly said that the lack of attention which its peculiarities have received in the past is responsible for more disease and its fatal issue than almost anything else."
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    tissued  tissuing  
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    Issue  issue  reissue  
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